Model Railroad Books

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Model Railroad Books

Model Railroad Books

What Books Would You Recommend For A Absolute Noobie Model Railroader?I have never built a Model railroad, but it is something my daughter seems to be interested in doing. Can you recommend 4 or 5 Books that might get us started? Will with be building it in a basement room, roughly 13' x 14'. I plan to start out with a standard 4x8 set up. We think we are going to do a Civil War era model. [ Read More ]

How Tall Is Hogwarts? I Am Building A Model Railroad And Wanted To Add A Certain School!?The models I will use will be 1:160 (i.e. one foot would be modeled at 0.075 inches). The Hogwarts Express train I will be using will be in 1:148 scale (i.e. it takes .0812 inches to Model 1 foot of structure). Noble says their Hogwarts Model 'Measures approximately 13 inches in height,' but it looks like most of that is comprised of cliffs, their Hogwarts is about 7 inches. That would make the Astronomy peak come close to looking 93 feet high next to other American N (1:160) scale structures-- and about 86 feet tall compared to the British N-gauge (1:148) train. A) Does anyone own the Noble Collection Hogwarts, and if so, how tall is just the Hogwarts portion of it? How accurate is this sculpt based on what we see in the movie and what is in the books? This sculpture has no way of internal lighting, correct? B) Does J.K. Rowling ever list the height of Hogwarts in any of the books? How tall is the Astronomy Tower? Does she mention the height of any particular landmarks? [ Read More ]

I Am Looking For Drawings Or Plans For Some Of The Buildings On The 60's Comedy Tv Show, Green Acres?I build models, and I want to do a diorama scene of the Green Acres main characters' homes. I will do it in Model railroad, HO Scale (1/87:1) scale. I found a book called 'TV Sets, Fantasy Plans of TV Show Houses, but the drawings are simple, and have no dimensions. I have a tractor models which will be perfect for Oliver's 'Hoyt Clagwell' (fictional) tractor. I still need an HO scale 1966 Lincoln Continental, and a 'C' cab, stake bed truck, of unkown vintage or maker. A mid 60's Ford Bronco in HO scale would also be nice, but not essential. I have many episodes of the show on tape, so I could estimate dimensions from stills of various scenes. But, actual, dimensioned drawings would be neater. I will build the house, barn, general store, and several others from raw materials (scratch-building). I will use a mix of commercial products, and custom made items for the scenery, the people, furniture, and other details. I am a semi-pro Model builder, but I could sure use help. [ Read More ]

Against My Better Judgment, But Seriously, What Do You Think?I really wasn't thinking of posting this, because I don't really want to do anything with it except maybe post it on Fictionpress, but I'm asking you, dear co-part-time-eResidents of Y!A Books and Authors: What do you think of this story? and What genre should it be in? Opinions/answers much appreciated but not required. Please, no flaming. Thx, pearlthebarrister ~ It is a damp, dark night. Clouds fill the sky, making the new moon night even darker, though only a light drizzle falls from them. They look ominous, as if suddenly a lightning bolt the size of four suns might appear at any given time. At a dark, dismal, soaking-wet rest stop along an abandoned Railroad track four travelers sit under an umbrella-covered table. Three of them are meteorologists on their way to a convention in Tulsa, some hundreds of miles away. The fourth is a hitchhiker. One of the meteorologists, a female with dark, limp brown hair and a constant hacking *coff, coff*, takes out a small radio shaped like a cloud. She sets it on the table and turns it on, twisting the dial until she reaches a 24-hour weather forecasting station. A moment of silence follows, broken only by the sizzle of static- the radio has gone out, just as the car did a few hours ago. Another moment - no, two, - of silence, this time broken by the hitchhiker's scratchy voice. 'You're meteorologists?' The woman says, 'Yes.' The hitchhiker scoffs. 'I don't trust weather forecasts.' 'Why not?' asks the older of the two male meteorologists. The hitchhiker is silent, and then: It all started a year ago. My fiancee, Hope, and I were driving to Arkansas for a convention of lollipop enthusiasts when suddenlyour RV went out. Thunderstorms, we guessed- the weather was always bad that year. So we pulled over at a rest stop, one that looked quite like this one. A light, freezing drizzle was falling, but the sky was as dark as it is today-- no, darker. I tried to get out a map, but I couldn't see it, and I accidentally dropped it in the mud. Hope turned on the radio. They were talking about the weather- you know, station models and all that. 'No warm fronts until about Friday,' I remember, and then something about how the weather would not get worse than a freezing drizzle. The radio, fully charged with a full battery, went out,and of course that proved them wrong. But that was only the half of it. A little later, Hope and I were sitting, eating some crackers that I'd packed and talking about the convention we hoped we'd still be on time for. It started, suddenly, to thunderstorm. Rain fell in sheets, pouring, freezing cold sheets--hail rained from the sky like bowling-ball-sized peas--the sky was filled with the sound of whooping thunder and flashbulb-like lightning. Yes, flashbulbs! And I swear, it sounded like whooping and grunting. And the rain, it smelled like spirits, a bottle of Merlot 1992 from California fresh-cracked-open from a wine cellar in the sky. The younger male meteorologist interrupts. 'Pardon me, sir, but don't you think you're getting a bit carried away in your story? I mean, it's a nice fiction story and all,' (he doesn't think the man knows what fiction means, and trust me, he's wrong)'but it's really imposs-' 'Shut it!' snarles the hitchhiker. The young man shuts it, and the hitchhiker continues. Anyway, Hope and I ran to the RV, but it had already been almost destroyed, with many of the parts washed away. Only the floor and part of our beds, plus the latrine, was left. We dragged them over to an uphill slope that led to a small tableland, where we set up a small tent. And there we stayed for several hours. Just sitting there, nay, in Hope's case, lying there. She'd taken deathly ill with a bad cold due to the rain, which had let up some, and the bowling-ball-esque hail had nearly given her a concussion--luckily it was no longer hailing--plus she was already a bit feverish from leaving the AC on in the RV at night, so I advised her to lay down in the tent and drink what little cold soup we had left. It wasn't working, though, and Hope kept slipping in and out of conciousness. All night long, the whooping, the grunting, the flashbulbs, and the Merlotesque rain continued. I began to wonder if maybe, just maybe-- but no, that was a silly idea. One of the last times Hope awoke, she called me over. 'Yes, dear?' I asked her gently as I entered the tent. She looked me straight in the eye and nearly screamed hoarsely, 'Party...cloudy!' 'Don't you mean partly cloudy, dear?' I asked her, just as gently as before. 'No, PARTY cloudy! As in, the clouds are having a party! Yay, yay, clouds are partying! Lots of wine, brandy, spirits, paparazzi, whooping, and of course lots of S, S, S!' She began to giggle and cackle wildly. I called 911. Soon, the wind began to blow, and I swear I saw and smelt smoke. It was like cigarette smoke, but strange. Of course I know now the smell was pot, b [ Read More ]

PLEASE!! This One About Karl Marx And Some Other Questions. PLEASE!?1. Adam Smith wrote a book about a)how market economies work b)the circular flow Model of money c)the market clearing price d)balancing opportunity costs 2.Which of the following statements about 'competition' is true? a)Competition guarantees a profit for each competitor b)Competition is based upon a surplus of goods and services c)Competition keeps producers from charging prices that are too high d)Competition only works in a resource market, not a product market 3. Which of the following ideas did Karl Marx believe? a)Workers should run the factories to make their lives better b)Workers and owners would cooperate for profit c)Workers shouldn't use force to get what they wanted d)Factory owners should have most of the wealth 4. Which of the following statements about socialism is false? a) people still make economic decisions b)people can own private property c)the government owns some large industries such as health care and the railroads. d)government tells people where to work [ Read More ]

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